What is Art?

What is art?

Why should you care?

Are men that do art effeminate?

Art comes from the Latin word ars, for which the Greek word is techne. Neither of these words would have conjured the modern concept of “Art” in the minds of the ancient Romans and Greeks as we think of it today. If we want to find another English word that can act as a synonym for what the ancient word ars used to mean, we could use the word “craft”, or even “mastery”. Including the Greek word techne, we could say “technical mastery”.